[b-hebrew] Lot as a Hostage

Uri Hurwitz uhurwitz at yahoo.com
Sun Feb 24 21:15:21 EST 2008


Bill Rea wrote, inter alia:
   
   
   "I often found it difficult to understand why he [Lemkhe]  and 
  TLT  [Thompson] used the words they did to describe their views
  as they were often using them in very non-standard ways,
  ways which would be almost certainlymisunderstood by the 
  causal reader "
   
    Both of these gentlemen spent paractically their entire careers
  in an effort to denude the historical narratives of the HB, till
  Neo-Assyrian times, of any scholarly value. They made their
  position clear in dozens of publications. Their views and
  specific arguments  were refuted, sometimes one by one,
  by many scholars.
   
    I don't know what what you mean by describing their words as 
  "very non- standard". It is true that Thomas Thompson often
  uses an opaque style, but this is far from being "non standard", 
  neither is it confined to some biblical scholars. Some consider
  a bombastic and convoluted style  an inadequate cover for 
  paucity of thought.
   
   
    Uri Hurwitz
   
    Great Neck, NY                                                                                                
   
  

 
  
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